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England, 1951. Eleven-year-old Flavia's church arranges to open the tomb of St. Tancred, its patron saint, on the quincentennial of…
his death. When excavators find the church organist dead and wearing a gas mask, Flavia investigates. Flavia must also come to terms with the sale of her beloved home. 2013
England, 1950. Eleven-year-old Flavia plans to spend the holiday investigating whether Father Christmas is real. But when her cash-strapped father…
rents out their mansion for a movie shoot and someone is murdered, Flavia finds herself with a more important mystery to solve--and a house full of suspects to consider. 2011
1951. After the corpse of Flavia's long-missing mother is discovered in a glacier, young Flavia, her family, and mourners--including Winston…
Churchill--await the coffin's arrival at the train station. A stranger makes a cryptic remark to Flavia--and then is pushed to his death. Flavia investigates. 2014
The Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration virus killed most American children--and left others with dangerous powers. When the government quarantines survivors…
in rehabilitation camps, sixteen-year-old Ruby escapes. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012
England, 1950. Eleven-year-old aspiring chemist Flavia de Luce overhears her father in a heated argument with a stranger, who turns…
up dead in the garden of the Luces' decaying estate. When Flavia's father is charged with murder, she seeks clues in their village and his past to exonerate him. 2009
England. Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, from The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (DB 71882), has a gypsy read her…
fortune. After the woman is attacked and left for dead on the estate of Falvia's father, Flavia investigates with help from the gypsy's granddaughter Porcelain Lee. 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring…
Flavia de Luce, "the world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times). Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. "A church is a wonderful place for a wedding," muses Flavia, "surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar." Flavia is not your normal twelve-year-old girl. An expert in the chemical nature of poisons, she has solved many mysteries, sharpening her considerable detection skills to the point where she had little choice but to turn professional. So Flavia and dependable Dogger, estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire, set up shop at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, eager to serve-not so simple an endeavor with her odious little moon-faced cousin, Undine, constantly underfoot. But Flavia and Dogger persevere. Little does she know that their first case will be extremely close to home, beginning with an unwelcome discovery in Ophelia's wedding cake: a human finger. Praise for The Golden Tresses of the Dead "Delightful...?he mysteries in Mr. Bradley's books are engaging, but the real lure is Ms. de Luce, the irreverent youngster."-The Wall Street Journal "A winning tenth mystery."-People "A ghoulish question is at the heart of Bradley's excellent tenth Flavia de Luce novel...? Bradley, who has few peers at combining fair-play clueing with humor and has fun mocking genre conventions, shows no sign of running out of ideas."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Flavia's over-the-top use of alliteration...?nd proudly precocious, sesquipedalian vocabulary...?long with the thoroughly endearing cast of characters, make this series' tenth installment a laugh-out-loud winner."-Booklist (starred review) "Flavia de Luce hasn't lost a sister, she's gained a case-and what a case...? Perhaps the most consistently hilarious adventure of the alarmingly precocious heroine."-Kirkus Reviews
In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a…
needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something else: a human head, attached to a human body. Sequel to "Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd". Followed by " The golden tresses of the dead". 2018.
Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul…
bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? How could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Sequel to "The weed that strings the hangman's bag". Followed by " I Am Half-Sick of Shadows". 2011.
England, 1950. Eleven-year-old aspiring chemist Flavia de Luce overhears her father in a heated argument with a stranger, who turns…
up dead in the garden of the Luces' decaying estate. When Flavia's father is charged with murder, she seeks clues in their village and his past to exonerate him. 2009.
1950s England. Shortly after the events of “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”, eleven-year-old chemist Flavia must unravel…
two more mysteries. Puppeteer Rupert Porson’s arrival in the hamlet leads to his death and to the re-examination of a child’s supposedly accidental hanging five years ago. 2011.
Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote's Female…
Academy across the sea in Canada. But the budding chemist and sleuth is cheered when a charred and mummified body tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. 2015
England. Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, from The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (BR 20171), has a gypsy read her…
fortune. After the woman is attacked and left for dead on the estate of Flavia's father, Flavia investigates with help from the gypsy's granddaughter Porcelain Lee. 2011
1950s England. Shortly after the events of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (BR 20172), eleven-year-old chemist Flavia…
must unravel two more mysteries. Puppeteer Rupert Porson's arrival in the hamlet leads to his death and to the re-examination of a child's supposedly accidental hanging five years ago. 2010
England, 1950. Eleven-year-old Flavia plans to spend the holiday investigating whether Father Christmas is real. But when her cash-strapped father…
rents out their mansion for a movie shoot and someone is murdered, Flavia finds herself with a more important mystery to solve--and a house full of suspects to consider. 2011
Deciding to go professional with her detecting skills, twelve-year-old Flavia sets up shop with estate gardener and sounding board extraordinaire…
Dogger. Their first case is extremely close to home and begins with the unwelcome discovery of a finger in the wedding cake of Flavia's sister Ophelia. 2019
In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce and her two sisters take a boating trip.…
While dangling her fingers in the water, Flavia grips a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder. 2018
Ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce has returned to England. While delivering a message…
to a reclusive wood-carver, Flavia stumbles upon the poor man's body hanging upside down on his bedroom door. She becomes energized by the prospect of a new investigation. Bestseller. 2016
Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and…
uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life. Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine’s main talent, aside from cultivating disgusting habits, seems to be raising Flavia’s hackles, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing, trickery, and other assorted mayhem. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead after a breakfast of poisonous mushrooms, suspicion falls on the de Luce family's longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet. After all, wasn't it she who'd picked the mushrooms, cooked the omelette, and served it to Greyleigh in the moments before his death? "I have to admit," says Flavia, an expert in the chemical nature of poisons, "that I'd been praying to God for a jolly good old-fashioned mushroom poisoning. Not that I wanted anyone to die, but why give a girl a gift such as mine without giving her the opportunity to use it?"But Flavia knows the beloved Mrs. Mullet is innocent. Together with Dogger, estate gardener and partner-in-crime, and the obnoxious Undine, Flavia sets out to find the real killer and clear Mrs. Mullet's good name. Little does she know that following the case's twists and turns will lead her to a most surprising discovery—one with the power to upend her entire life.